Announcing AMI-audio Show Podcasts

May 24th, 2017 by FFB Canada

AMI-audio creates diverse and inclusive content focused on the blind and low vision community. Through its two daily live programs, Live from Studio 5 and Kelly and Company, AMI-audio covers a variety of news, information and community happenings in the blind and low vision community across Canada.

Live from Studio 5 airs weekday mornings at 8 a.m. Eastern bringing you news of the day, technology and current events. Tune in for regional blind and partially sighted community information as well as segments with political commentator Craig Oliver, environmental commentary with blind fisherman Lawrence Gunther and described video picks with TV, eh?’s Greg David.

Weekday afternoons at 3 p.m. Eastern catch Kelly and Company for arts, entertainment and lifestyle information directly affecting the blind and partially sighted community. Blind and partially sighted contributors across the country share information on everything from parenting and finance to fashion and gaming. Plus, catch live performances from Canadian musicians, comedians and actors every Friday.

We’re excited to make our content available to you on more platforms you want to access. We’re always building on making our media accessible on more platforms for our listeners and we value our community’s input.

How to subscribe to AMI-audio podcasts

The Podcasts app for iOS provides easy access to popular and featured podcasts using the navigation icons at the bottom of the app. To subscribe to our shows, search for them and then tap Subscribe on the page for that podcast. To play a podcast, tap on any episode. To download an episode, tap the iCloud icon in the episode list.

Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) is a not-for-profit multimedia organization serving more than five million Canadians who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, hard of hearing, mobility or print restricted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI’s mission is to make accessible media for all Canadians. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness is proud to partner with Accessible Media Inc. as part of an initiative to ensure that the Foundation’s content and programming, such as Vision Quest, are made accessible to our shared community. The Foundation and AMI both strongly believe that Canadians living with vision loss should have easy access to meaningful and dynamic media.